The "farm holiday" movement of the early 1930s was:
a. designed to provide one week per month of vacation time for farmers and their families
b. a protest against European dumping of farm products in the United States
c. a movement to protest low farm prices by stopping shipments of food and milk to cities
d. a program to send the children of the urban unemployed to rural areas, where at least the children would have enough to eat
C
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
With respect to the Somoza dictatorship, the United States
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